by paul-wsh | Jun 19, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Seventies
Roger Mansfield has very kindly let me publish this great piece on Rob Ward taken from his book ‘The Surfing Tribe’. The story of British surfing would not be complete without reference to its underground surfers – those who passed up competition, fashion...
by paul-wsh | Mar 23, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Nineties
Chris Thomson grew up on the Isle of Wight, learning to surf at an early age with one dream, ‘surfing’. Chris left school at 16 and went to Newquay to live his dream, he became a surf coach and had a successful competition career with big name sponsors...
by paul-wsh | Feb 29, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Seventies
I have recently been in contact with Rob Ward and this is what he had to say. I am heading off into the South Australian desert in a week or so to Cactus. If you Google Ceduna South Australia and go west 60k to Penong, Cactus is on the coast 20k roughly south....
by paul-wsh | Feb 11, 2011 | The Noughties
I caught up with the Rapanui boys Martin and Rob Drake-Knight yesterday at their office in Bembridge. For anyone who doesn’t know them or Rapanui, the two brothers set up Rapanui in 2008. They make eco-fashionable clothing from natural organic fabrics in a Fair Wear...
by paul-wsh | Jan 11, 2011 | In Print, The Sixties
What is Surfing – by Robert Ward Is it pushing a plywood strip through six inches of white summer foam with Dad and the family, taking a slide of twenty yards with the kids screaming with excitiement? For many this is surfing. For some the difference between...